README - Fri Mar 17 13:57:53 MET 2000 xcheckers lets you play checkers in an X Window against others over the internet and against the computer. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To compile the sources, install binaries and run the application type xmkmf -a # create makefiles make # start compilation sh test.sh # test binaries su (yr. secret) # get root privileges make install # install binaries, defaults make install.man # \ and man pages exit # \ for systemwide execution xcheckers # run the application and a checkerboard will be displayed, which is partly obscured by the help window. Select "new game *" from the buttons and you better consider your moves well. In the terminal window you will see a lot of engine output. Xcheckers does nothing to hide this, its as if you called the engine alone. Use it to see whats going on. ------------------------------------------------------------------- To customize the buttons edit your ~/.xcheckersrc. For each button there is a label and a call resource. The manpage can tell you more about it. To make connecting to icds the default add "xcheckers.icds: true" to your ~/.xcheckersrc. You may have to set icds to display the board as style 5. From v1.3 on, xcheckers does this by itself, on encountering a board style 1. Today there is no permanent ICDS on the internet. Contact Micheal Rohrer if you want to setup your own. It isnt that hard. To run the engine on a different computer choose -icds -host some.host.net -port 23, log in to your shell account and start the engine; there may be some additional echo. To have the application called from a window manager menu or button, enter "xterm -e xcheckers" as its command. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Makefile targets are make dist : tar the sources to ../xcheckers-[version].tar.gz make bindist: tar the binaries to ../xcheckers-[vrsn].[pltfrm].tar.gz ------------------------------------------------------------------- xcheckers is free software, for details see accompanying file COPYING. xcheckers is partly based on xics-2.3 bye Shirish Chinchalkar, Urban Koistinen, Nelson Minar and Patrick Surry. Courtesy of Martin Fierz, this contains simplech, a strong search engine. Check out the icds homepage: http://sonic.digital-web.net/~lionman/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- xcheckers homepage is at http://arton.cunst.net/xcheckers/ Send suggestions, bug reports and bug fixes to